Zelenskyy explained, “I told him that if he gave us the weapons we need and stopped supporting Putin, we would let him build Trump-branded hotels and other Trump-branded buildings in Ukraine’s ten largest cities, as well as Trump golf courses in the countryside. He was quite excited.”   read more

When the weeds outside the federal courthouse in Pasadena, California, got to be too much, federal officials decided on a low-tech—and less expensive and more environmentally friendly—option for clearing away the brush: goats.   The General Serv...   read more

City officials in Rochester, New York, have a problem turning off the tap. Instead of shutting off water supplies to the city’s numerous vacant homes, the local government has continued to read the meters and compile “astonishing” water bills for ...   read more

The Dutch have had enough and are pulling out of Afghanistan, becoming the first NATO country to leave and marking what could be the beginning of many U.S. allies withdrawing from the war. After the Netherlands removes its 1,900 troops from Afghan...   read more

Thanks to foot-dragging during the Bush administration, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is only now getting around to implementing rules to help women-owned businesses receive government contracts even though the relevant program was signe...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to a biotechnology company to conduct the first-ever clinical trial involving human embryonic stem cells (hESC). Geron, based in Menlo Park, California, will test using hESC on patie...   read more

Bad economic times have forced local governments to shed jobs, making it tougher for struggling Americans to receive city and county services. Local governments across the United States are expected to eliminate over the next couple of years nearl...   read more

Cracking down on illegal immigrants not only wins points with angry voters, but also boosts the bottom-line of private prison corporations. With the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency capturing thousands of undocumented workers each ...   read more

Lawmakers on a U.S. House subcommittee have boosted missile defense funding to Israel beyond what President Barack Obama requested, elevating support to its highest level ever, according to The Jerusalem Post.   The House Appropriations Subcommi...   read more

Nobody likes taxes. The problem is that the United States government needs money—lots of it—to do all the things we want it to do. So we tend to think of taxes as unpleasant necessities. I believe we can eliminate taxes completely. We just need to...   read more

Known as the “BP squad,” a group of federal investigators charged with examining the Deepwater Horizon accident have begun looking into what roles BP, Transocean and Halliburton played in the disaster.   Officials with the Department of Justice...   read more

James R. Clapper, Jr. has extensive experience in intelligence matters, having worked in the field during his four-decade career in the U.S. Air Force and in the administration of President George W. Bush. However, his nomination by President Bara...   read more

Unhappy with a plan by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to level the playing field between big agricultural companies and smaller farmers and ranchers, agribusiness is lobbying hard for Democrats and Republicans on the House Agriculture C...   read more

Naval commanders were delighted to see the arrival of the U.S. Navy’s latest version of the E-2 surveillance plane. Dubbed the Advanced Hawkeye, the plane looks similar to other E-2s with twin propellers and a “dinner-plate-shaped radar dome” that...   read more

Transparency is all well and good when it comes to Wall Street, but not the government agency charged with regulating it. As part of the financial reform bill approved by Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission won’t have to turn over man...   read more

A group of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House have chosen jobs over the potential health hazards posed by coal ash.   Nine Democrats and 22 Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee voiced opposition in a letter to the U.S....   read more

Already under scrutiny for its response to the gulf oil accident, the U.S. Coast Guard is now reportedly years behind schedule and $3.8 billion over budget in its effort to modernize its fleet of ships and aircraft, according to an investigation b...   read more